3 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster kills 2,000 in India 1984
3 Three Marynoll Nuns and a lay missionary murdered in El Savador (1980)
7 David Ben Gurion speech saying history of the People of Israel more important than saving all the lives of Europe's Jewish children (just after Kristallnacht 1938)
8 UNWRA established to help Palestinian refugees
9 First Intifada (uprising) erupts (1987)
10 International Human Rights Day
11 UN Resolution 194 passed (1948) recognizing Palestinian right to return
14 UN indentifies Puerto Rico as a colony (1973)
14 New York Times reveals Israeli Defense Minister Sharon had visited Apartheid South Africa for 10 days and reported that South Africa needed more weapons (1981)
16 President Clinton orders concentrated bombing campaign against Iraq "Desert Fox" (1998)
17 U.S. cruise missile strikes in al-Majala, Yemen kill 40 mixing the body parts with hundreds of sheep and goats (2009)
25 Birth of Isaac Newton, scientist
26 members VVAW (Vietnam war veterans) "capture" Statue of Liberty (1971)
26 Abraham Lincoln had 38 Dakota Indians hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, in the largest mass execution in US history (1862)
27 "Gaza Massacre" begins. Over 300 children and 1,000 other Palestinians killed (2008)
29 Masscre of 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee by US troops (1890)